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Braze

Customer engagement platform for cross-channel messaging

Customer Account Executive - Strategic Enterprise

Account ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeChicago, IL, USA$115.5k - $181k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of experience in account management, SaaS sales, or similar quota-carrying roles, including at least 5 years closing or managing global relationships with large and complex strategic customers.
  • Background in enterprise SaaS sales for mobile and/or marketing technology.
  • Ability to research accounts, develop a point of view on the value the technology can deliver, and prioritize global client needs to maximize revenue.
  • Proven success navigating large organizations and identifying decision makers and decision-making processes for large SaaS investments.
  • Executive-level business acumen and ability to establish credibility as a trusted advisor at senior organizational levels.
  • Ability to develop retention strategies that protect client relationships and grow partnerships in competitive environments.
  • Verbal, written, and presentation skills, including experience presenting value propositions to executive teams.
  • Ability to handle high-demand clients and competing priorities.
  • Experience with Salesforce.com CRM, Clari, or another CRM used to manage sales pipelines.
  • Organizational and time-management abilities.
  • Ability to quickly learn new cloud applications and tools.
  • Current knowledge of digital trends, especially in mobile, web, and email.
  • Ability to travel to customer and prospect sites, marketing events, and company and regional gatherings.

Responsibilities

  • Own a defined set of customer relationships and manage expansion and renewal activities.
  • Develop commercial relationships and a joint business vision to increase Braze utilization and value.
  • Create strategies to retain existing business, with a roadmap for joint business value and ongoing growth.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to secure contract renewals and maintain a unified account vision and value story.
  • Nurture and close account expansion deals, including upsell, cross-sell, and new lines of business.
  • Educate and activate internal executive stakeholders to operationalize multi-threaded account alignment.
  • Communicate and share customer feedback with the Braze product team.
  • Document and manage knowledge of complex technology architecture within the customer portfolio, including competitive threats and partnership strategies.
  • Achieve quarterly upsell and renewal targets.
  • Collaborate across Customer Success, Sales, Revenue Operations, Product, Legal, and Marketing.
  • Coordinate resources to drive feature adoption.
  • Develop, maintain, and grow knowledge of Braze and Braze ecosystem products.
  • Build deep account knowledge across onboarding, customer success, commercial matters, procurement, legal matters, and organizational structure.
  • Analyze customer product usage, develop whitespace analyses, and identify growth opportunities.
  • Conduct quarterly whitespace mapping to increase revenue predictability.
  • Work with Customer Success and OTS to transition clients from presales through onboarding and into ongoing service usage.

Desired Qualifications

  • Prior experience at a startup technology company.

About the Company

Braze

Customer engagement platform for cross-channel messaging

Braze is a customer engagement platform that helps brands build ongoing relationships with customers by coordinating real-time, cross-channel messages across email, push, in-app, SMS, and more. It collects data from any source, segments audiences, and orchestrates customer journeys so the right message reaches the right person at the right time. It also uses AI-powered experimentation and optimization to test and improve campaigns. Braze differentiates itself with a data-driven, multi-channel approach and a strong emphasis on journey orchestration and real-time engagement, serving a wide range of clients from small businesses to large enterprises and operating globally. Its goal is to enable brands to deliver relevant, personalized experiences at scale, across channels, to drive lasting customer relationships.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2011

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